Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 18:45:53 -0700, Pete Slagle wrote: When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all. For a given set of applications, as RAM increases you need less swap space, not more. And vice

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:28:19 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 18:45:53 -0700, Pete Slagle wrote: When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all. For a given set of

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Schuh
2006/4/10, Michael Schuh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello @all, last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is limitied to 2GB or better to

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Michael Schuh wrote this message on Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:56 +0200: My Problem was that i can't show my configured swapsize right... Partitionsize for swap was 4GB Showing Value was 2GB, could you post swapinfo -k and disklabel of the appropriate disks? -- John-Mark Gurney

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:48:08AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: Hello @all, last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:56:30PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: 2006/4/10, Michael Schuh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello @all, last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top it

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
From 'man tuning' (I think I wrote this, a long time ago): You should typically size your swap space to approximately 2x main mem- ory. If you do not have a lot of RAM, though, you will generally want a lot more swap. It is not recommended that you configure any less than

Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Michael Schuh
Hello @all, last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is limitied to 2GB or better to INT_MAX ? At another MAchine with FreeBSD4.11 i

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: Hello @all, last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is limitied

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: Hello @all, last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Pete Slagle
Daniel O'Connor wrote: The old swap size = 2x RAM rule is no longer applicable unless you have a very special application. This rule always seemed counterintuitive to me anyway. When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. When you have more than enough RAM you

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Andrews
Daniel O'Connor wrote: The old swap size = 2x RAM rule is no longer applicable unless you have a very special application. This rule always seemed counterintuitive to me anyway. When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. When you have more than enough

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Tony Maher
Pete Slagle wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: The old swap size = 2x RAM rule is no longer applicable unless you have a very special application. This rule always seemed counterintuitive to me anyway. When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space. When you have more

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread David Magda
On Apr 10, 2006, at 21:45, Pete Slagle wrote: When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all. You need enough swap space to do a dump in case a panic occurs. While panics are (hopefully) rare, if it does happen, you usually want things set up so that you can